Top 500 Aristotle Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “There’s many a slip between the cup and the lip.”

— Aristotle

152. “Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”

— Aristotle

153. “The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”

— Aristotle

154. “Fate of empires depends on the education of youth.”

— Aristotle

155. “Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.”

— Aristotle

156. “There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.”

— Aristotle

157. “He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.”

— Aristotle

158. “We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.”

— Aristotle

159. “God has many names, though He is only one Being.”

— Aristotle

160. “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

— Aristotle

161. “The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.”

— Aristotle

162. “Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action...”

— Aristotle

163. “It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.”

— Aristotle

164. “We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.”

— Aristotle

165. “No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at injustice to himself.”

— Aristotle

166. “Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.”

— Aristotle

167. “The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.”

— Aristotle

168. “Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.”

— Aristotle

169. “For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.”

— Aristotle

170. “Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.”

— Aristotle

171. “The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

— Aristotle

172. “Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature’s unrealized ends.”

— Aristotle

173. “When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.”

— Aristotle

174. “To love someone is to identify with them.”

— Aristotle

175. “That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it.”

— Aristotle

176. “The law is reason unaffected by desire.”

— Aristotle

177. “The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.”

— Aristotle

178. “Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.”

— Aristotle

179. “When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.”

— Aristotle

180. “The soul is the form of the body.”

— Aristotle

181. “He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.”

— Aristotle

182. “Happiness is self-connectedness.”

— Aristotle

183. “Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.”

— Aristotle

184. “All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.”

— Aristotle

185. “Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind.”

— Aristotle

186. “Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.”

— Aristotle

187. “Character is determined by choice, not opinion.”

— Aristotle

188. “So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.”

— Aristotle

189. “The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.”

— Aristotle

190. “The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.”

— Aristotle

191. “The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”

— Aristotle

192. “Change in all things is sweet.”

— Aristotle

193. “There is only one good, that is knowledge; there is only one evil, that is ignorance.”

— Aristotle

194. “All men seek one goal: success or happiness.”

— Aristotle

195. “The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.”

— Aristotle

196. “Peace is more difficult than war.”

— Aristotle

197. “The secret to humor is surprise.”

— Aristotle

198. “Have a definite, clear, practical ideal – a goal, an objective.”

— Aristotle

199. “It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.”

— Aristotle

200. “We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.”

— Aristotle